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corked

UK/kɔːkt/

corked is the simple past and past participle of cork.

Adjective

corked (comparative more corked, superlative most corked)

  1. Of a container, especially a bottle, closed with a cork.
    • Once someone discovered a bottle of wine in the sand that was still corked.1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 554
  2. Of (a bottle of) wine, tainted by mould/mold in the cork.
    • Waiter, this wine is corked. Could you bring us another bottle?
  3. Blackened by burnt cork.
    • the corked faces of the outlaws

Meaning of cork

Verb

cork (third-person singular simple present corks, present participle corking, simple past and past participle corked)

  1. (transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
    • Arms draped on shoulders, kick-stepping in circles, they swing bottles of wine. Purpled thumbs cork the bottles. The wine leaps and jumps behind green glass.2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
  2. (transitive) To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.
  3. To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
  4. To fill with cork.
    1. (transitive) To tamper with (a bat) by drilling out part of the head and filling the cavity with cork or similar light, compressible material.
      • He corked his bat, which was discovered when it broke, causing a controversy.
  5. (Australia, transitive) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
    • The vicious tackle corked his leg.

See all 18 meanings of cork

Forms of corked

comparativemore corked
superlativemost corked

Words formed from corked

Phrases with corked

Words that rhyme with corked

Questions about corked

What does corked mean?
Corked means of a container, especially a bottle, closed with a cork.
What is corked the simple past and past participle of?
Corked is the simple past and past participle of cork.
What part of speech is corked?
Corked is an adjective.
How do you pronounce corked?
Corked is pronounced /kɔːkt/ (UK).

Words near corked in the dictionary

  1. corkboards
  2. corkborer
  3. corkborers
  4. corkbush
  5. Corke
  6. corked
  7. corked bat
  8. corked bats
  9. corked it
  10. corked off
  11. corked out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: corked (page history and authors); cork (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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